The Origins of the First World War (Lancaster Pamphlets) by Ruth Henig

By Ruth Henig

"The Origins of the 1st international War" is a concise advent to at least one of the key ancient controversies. This pamphlet: surveys the roots of the clash; assesses the legacy of Bismarck's international relations; outlines the assassination difficulty; specializes in impacts affecting person international locations; and examines the old debate. This version incorporates a new creation, a chronology of the main occasions and an replace at the old debate explaining the instructions within which the historiography is heading.

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Though Princip was Bosnian and therefore an Austro-Hungarian subject, it was strongly suspected that he and other terrorists had been supplied with weapons and training from army officers highly placed in the Serbian administration. The opportunity which had now presented itself for the Austrians to take military action against the Serbs was too good to miss, especially in the light of the actual crime committed. The Austrian government was The origins of the first world war 18 hopeful that the Russians would be so disgusted by the assassination of a royal archduke that they would be loath to be drawn into any resulting conflict between Austria and Serbia.

Severe Hungarian repression of Croats and Serbs in Croatia inflamed passions further and encouraged Serb hopes. And Serb appetites were whetted by the Italian military successes in 1911 against the Turkish possessions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in North Africa. Growing Balkans unrest The Italian victory over Turkish forces in North Africa in late 1911 and subsequent seizure of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean in May of the following year, combined with bombardments and naval raids on the Dardanelles, paved the way for a Balkans explosion with possibly catastrophic consequences.

The British government resented Germany’s bullying tactics and was alarmed at Germany’s continuing naval build-up. Two years later, in 1907, Britain concluded an understanding with her great nineteenth-century rival for Asian influence, Russia. The two powers agreed to regulate their spheres of influence and concessions in The origins of the first world war 10 Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet. Triple Entente against Triple Alliance Thus by the end of 1907, a Triple Entente had come into being, facing a Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

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